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- Title
LOCAL COMMUNITIES AGAINST INFANZONES. CONFLICTS OVER LEGAL STATUS IN RURAL ARAGON CA. 1300.
- Authors
FACI, Guillermo TOMÁS
- Abstract
In the eleventh century, the peasants' legal status in northern Aragon started to show a dichotomy between infanzones (free men) and villanos (serfs). These categories were redefined and codified between 1200 and 1350 and they were used to deter mine each family's contribution to royal taxation. Rural communities showed two different attitudes regarding these legal changes: while some localities supported their neighbors' attempts to rise to the infanzonia status, other villages tried to prevent anyone from losing their low condition, thus remaining as taxpayers. Tis latter attitude explains why some local council fought the royal concession of those privileged status at the king's court. Using the data originating from the Archive of the Crown of Aragon, this paper will argue that the rural communities' different political actions were the result of diverging strategies created to relieve the impact of royal taxation on the peasants' economy.
- Subjects
PEASANTS -- History; HISTORY of Aragon, Spain; SOCIAL status
- Publication
Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2017, Vol 35, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0213-2060
- Publication type
Abstract